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⏳ Last chance to register for the CS Music Panel Auditions Berlin! There are only a few days left to register, and only a few places remain. 📅 11–12 November 2026 📍 Berlin, Germany Sing for a panel of opera houses and artist agencies in one day: 🎭 Oper Leipzig 🎭 Brandenburger Theater 🎭 Theater Görlitz-Zittau 🎭 HNK Osijek 🎤 DeFeis International Artists 🎤 Sorek Artists 🎤 Cicada-Con Don’t miss this opportunity to be heard by the people who cast and represent singers. Register now at csmusic.net 🔗 Link in bio #csmusiccommunity #operaauditions #operasingersofinstagram #classicalsinger #singingermany by @csmusiccommunity
What happens when a straight theatre director has two weeks to stage Wagner’s Das Rheingold with three casts? Mary Kelly is a Berlin-based Irish actor, director and playwright, published by Nick Hern Books in London and The Stinging Fly in Dublin, who also mentors writers. Her first piece of advice before taking the job was “you don’t have time to be awestruck by what they can do.” In her new article, Mary writes about blocking an opera on paper in one of Berlin’s only air-conditioned restaurants and why it’s wrong to divide singing and acting too sharply. “If I did anything right it was having the sense to stand back and let them.” Read the full article on our website via the link in bio. Learn more about Mary at marycreates.com. #csmusiccommunity #stagedirector #operasingersofinstagram #theatremakers #singingingermany @marycreatez by @csmusiccommunity
Did you know that for the price of less than ONE coffee a month, you can get all of this? ☕ You can pay more for audition listings alone. Or you can subscribe to CS Music and get the listings, plus industry articles, audition feedback and accompaniments. Subscribe at csmusic.net 🔗 Link in bio #csmusiccommunity #classicalsingermagazine #operasingersofinstagram #operaauditions #voiceteacher by @csmusiccommunity
Why does opera protect its stars, even when they cause harm? In her new article, Anastasia Inniss starts with a moment she witnessed as a young singer and stayed silent about for years. From there she examines how opera’s obsession with fame shapes education, funding and careers. She shows how it intersects with hierarchies of passport, race, body size, disability and age, and how it creates a system where accountability is suspended for those at the top. “Credibility is earned through knowledge and conduct, not visibility.” Anastasia is a versatile, multifaceted artist working in Europe across performance, education, directing, production and arts leadership. anastasiainniss.com Read the full article via the website link in bio or via this direct link: https://www.csmusic.net/content/untouchable-how-operas-obsession-with-fame-enables-abuse/ #csmusiccommunity #opera #operasingersofinstagram #accountability #artsleadership @anastasiainniss by @csmusiccommunity
From all of us at CS Music, Happy Halloween to you all! Wishing y’all all the treats and none of the tricks. #happyhalloween #csmusiccommunity #operasingersofinstagram #voiceteacher by @csmusiccommunity
What does a casting team really look for when you walk into the room? Steven Higgins is a UK conductor, musical director, arranger and producer. He trained at Oxford, Guildhall and the National Opera Studio, began at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne and ENO, and has since conducted for Paris Opera, ENO, WNO, Scottish Opera and festivals worldwide. A champion of new work, he has led premieres by Damon Albarn and Jonathan Dove, and he is musical director of Theatre of Sound and Silent Opera. In his new article, Steven looks at why so few of the UK’s highly trained singers find steady work at home, and at how Brexit’s 90-days-in-180 rule changed careers in Europe. He also lists the five things he weighs when casting: musicianship, dramatic intelligence, preparation, ensemble awareness, and the difference between potential and readiness. “The system they are entering is harder than the one their teachers entered. But it has not closed. It has simply changed its terms.” Read the full article: https://www.csmusic.net/content/singers-and-the-uk-system-a-conductors-perspective-on-training-casting-brexit-and-developing-a-career-at-home/ #csmusiccommunity #ukopera #Brexit #operaaudition #operasingersofinstagram by @csmusiccommunity
Soprano Janet Williams, former ensemble member of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and author of Nail Your Next Audition, sings “Je veux vivre”. She has also sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, San Francisco Opera and Oper Frankfurt. This December, she shares what she has learned from the inside of the Fest system and in her decades-long career singing on some of the most iconic stages in the world: 📅 Workshop, online, Sat December 5: The German system, from the inside. $60 📅 Masterclass, online, Sun December 6: Audition repertoire coaching for seven selected singers. $70 active / $15 observer Masterclass applications close November 15. Send one recording and your resume to anastasia.inniss@csmusic.net. Register via the link in bio. #csmusiccommunity #operaauditions #auditioningingermany #operasingersofinstagram #singingingermany @jwbsings by @csmusiccommunity
How do you prepare an American singer for the German Fest system? Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Tichina Vaughn is preparing singers for that leap. She made her Staatsoper Stuttgart debut as Mistress Quickly, built her career in Stuttgart and Dresden, and has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera and the Arena di Verona. She holds the German title of Kammersängerin and is associate professor of voice at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. In her new article, she covers language, Fach, repertoire, mental and financial preparation, how to audition when conditions are far from perfect, the pace of ensemble life, and when to stay or go home. Read the full article on csmusic.net: https://www.csmusic.net/content/preparing-american-singers-in-a-conservatory-setting-for-the-german-fest-system/ #csmusiccommunity #operasingersofinstagram #festsystem #auditioningingermany #voiceteacher @tichinavaughn by @csmusiccommunity
Our next Panel Auditions are in Berlin: 📅 11–12 November 2026, 10 am to 6 pm 📍 Studio Knutson, Ahornstr 6, 12163 Berlin 🎤 Sing for Oper Leipzig, Brandenburger Theater, Theater Görlitz-Zittau, Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, DeFeis International Artists, Sorek Artists and Cicada-Con 🎟 $135 registration fee. Register at csmusic.net, link in bio. #csmusiccommunity #operaauditions #operasingersofinstagram #auditioningingermany #operasingers by @csmusiccommunity
What happens when you learn opera through a hip hop lens? Babatunde Akinboboye grew up on Dr. Dre, saw his first opera from the stage, and memorised Bartolo’s “La vendetta” by singing it to a hip hop beat. In 2018 one Facebook video went viral, and Hip Hopera was born. Today it’s a movement, with sold-out tours, tea parties with fans and a debut album, fan-funded and produced with Grammy-winning producer Knobody, due out in winter 2027. The article is by Samantha Nahra, a New York-based writer and the operatic mermaid, Buoy the Brooklyn Mermaid. She is a journalist for Classical Singer magazine and was the librettist for two YouTube operas, A Dramatic Soprano Tries Cooking…The Opera and its sequel, composed by Philip Wharton. Her poetry has been set to music by Diedre Murray and showcased by the Why Collective in NYC. “If you look to the same judges, we’re going to continue to get the same art.” Read the full article on csmusic.net. https://www.csmusic.net/content/the-man-behind-the-movement-babatunde-and-hip-hopera/ #csmusiccommunity #hiphopera #operasingersofinstagram @babatunde_hiphopera @dramaticallyzwischen by @csmusiccommunity
Learn the German system from someone who has sung inside it. Soprano Janet Williams, former ensemble member of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, leads a workshop on auditioning in Germany, followed by a masterclass coaching the audition repertoire of seven selected singers. Workshop: $60 Masterclass: active participant $70 observer $15 Masterclass applications close November 15th. Send one recording and a resume to anastasia.inniss@csmusic.net. Register for both via the link in bio. #operaauditions #opera #operasinger #auditioningingermany singersofinstagram @jwbsings by @csmusiccommunity
🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT “You are not special, and neither am I.” American bass-baritone Seth Carico spent nine seasons in the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and has sung at La Scala, Staatsoper Hamburg and New National Theatre Tokyo. Here’s why he believes humility is the key to thriving in Germany. Read his article on csmusic.net: https://www.csmusic.net/content/singing-in-germany-and-learning-humility/ #csmusiccommunity #operasingersofinstagram #auditioningingermany #singingingermany #operasingers @mephysto42 by @csmusiccommunity

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